Vince Lombardi Quotes
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I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
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Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
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I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
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The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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The will to win is the only thing.
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If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers...Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.